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Graham sees this as a family business now. He was never going to leave.

If that were true then he would have stuck with the family from the beginning. Heck, from his junior ladder days but he didn't.

Graham picked his father Bobby's team - Bobby didn't pick him. It also turned out to be not only the right choice but a smart choice.

I'm sure if Graham wasn't winning with Bobby's team he would have left by now. People may have a different opinion on that but throughout Graham's career he has shown that he can survive with the help of his father as the team owner.

If that were true then he would have stuck with the family from the beginning.

Your response makes no sense. Go back and read the post you quoted and responded to. What dakinca said was that, "Graham sees this as a family business now."

Originally Posted by Hitokiri

Graham picked his father Bobby's team - Bobby didn't pick him.

Again, that makes no sense. The decision for Graham to race for his father's team was not (and could not be) his alone.

Originally Posted by Hitokiri

I'm sure if Graham wasn't winning with Bobby's team he would have left by now.

Can it be truly said that Graham is winning? It has been a year since his last victory (both Detroit rounds) and those two were his only wins in 2017. In 2016 he won only one race. So, again, is Graham "winning" now?

You say he picked his father's team. What team would Graham pick next if were to leave RLL?

Originally Posted by Hitokiri

People may have a different opinion on that but throughout Graham's career he has shown that he can survive with the help of his father as the team owner.

Survive? What does that mean, exactly? Is that a race driver's goal, to just survive (like Marco)? Shouldn't the goal be to thrive and to win? And, as you pointed out, Graham has not had his father as his team owner throughout his career.

Saw on twitter that Santino Ferrucci was at Texas race in a Paysafe shirt. Don’t know if he attend the F1 race but interesting he was at the indycar race. Wondering if he isn’t out of a seat in F2. They spit you out if your not up to snuff very fast.

Saw on twitter that Santino Ferrucci was at Texas race in a Paysafe shirt. Don’t know if he attend the F1 race but interesting he was at the indycar race. Wondering if he isn’t out of a seat in F2. They spit you out if your not up to snuff very fast.

Looks like his welcome at F2 is worn out. If F1 was his plan, it only makes sense to be at the closer Montreal F1 event. Maybe out of funding too?

Looks like his welcome at F2 is worn out. If F1 was his plan, it only makes sense to be at the closer Montreal F1 event. Maybe out of funding too?

He won't be the first or the last to face such a reality. The amount of money a driver needs to just enter F1 is ridiculous. With the sudden popularity of the Indy 500 and the news that McLaren seems to be thinking seriously about Indycar - all the sudden Indycar doesn't look as bad as it once did at the 1/10 or maybe even 1/20 of the cost.

With the sudden popularity of the Indy 500 and the news that McLaren seems to be thinking seriously about Indycar...

What "sudden popularity" are you referring to? Consider the rating for this year's 500 (3.1 with viewership down 10% from last year) was the lowest it has ever been. Given that I cannot help but wonder what you are basing your comment on.

Jay Frye says more new teams coming next year and more the year after that.

Originally Posted by Indy Star

“We’ve worked hard the past couple years developing our five-year plan, and part of that plan was recruiting new teams and gaining new teams,” Frye said. “And we got new teams, which is great. More new teams coming next year and more new teams coming the year after that. We’ve got good momentum, which is very exciting. And a byproduct of that, listen, ever since I’ve been here people have said, ‘We need bumping at the speedway! We need bumping at the speedway!’ Now the field is getting bigger and we’re getting more entries for the 500, more teams running full time, and we see that as all good stuff.”

If Fred comes back next year, he brings the 20 million streaming Spaniards with him, right?

Hopefully they can drown out the miserably angry, worthless, bitter, useless, stuck in the past former CART/IRL fans that can't handle any type of good news in the series and only show up on this forum to **** and crap all over the series and the fans that follow it.

I'd rather have 10% of the world interested in the ICS than 50% of US that NASCAR currently has

Hopefully they can drown out the miserably angry, worthless, bitter, useless, stuck in the past former CART/IRL fans that can't handle any type of good news in the series and only show up on this forum to **** and crap all over the series and the fans that follow it.

Hey they got rid of the stupid air box, that was my last complaint. Oh yeah and Cleveland NEEDS to be back.